It’s not a sentence you hear often, but Scooter Gennett made Major League Baseball history Tuesday night.
The Cincinnati Reds utility man incredibly launched four home runs out of Great American Ball Park in a 13-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals to go 5-for-5 with 10 RBIs.
#LightningStrikes on a historic night for @SGennett2. https://t.co/zUdfj3R324 pic.twitter.com/pOMFF5l0cN
— MLB (@MLB) June 7, 2017
And while Gennett became the 17th MLB player ever to hit four home runs in a game, he was the first to put up that ridiculous stat line for one of the greatest individual performances ever.
Historic.
Scooter Gennett is the 1st player in MLB history with 5 hits, 4 HR and 10 RBI in a game. pic.twitter.com/s5yjg4PrfQ
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 7, 2017
Gennett started his night off with an RBI single in the bottom of the first inning to plate Cincinnati’s first run and continued to do most of the Reds’ scoring from there. The 27-year-old hit a grand slam in the third inning, a two-run homer in the fourth, a solo shot in the sixth and another two-run bomb in the eighth.
Former Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips returned to Cincinnati with the Atlanta Braves on Friday and called it a “slap in the face” that the club gave Gennett his former No. 4. However, that might not be the case anymore.
Thumbnail photo via David Kohl/USA TODAY Sports Images
